Friday, August 21, 2009

make a fabric flower and a flower tutorial round up

Thanks to all of you who have joined us all week for Flower Week! We had several other great flower ideas on our list, so we'll have to have a "part two" sometime soon. To end our week, here is one more cool flower we made and a bunch of other fabulous flower tutorials that we found out in blogland. Enjoy!

This fabric flower was made in a similar fashion as our ribbon flowers. We started with a 20-inch by 4-inch piece of fabric and folded it in half lengthwise. Then we sewed down the side to make it like a long piece of ribbon. We proceeded with the ribbon flower tutorial, pulling the strings to bunch it up a bit. After that, we rolled it, starting with one end as the flower center and wrapping the other end around until it was full enough. You can cut off the end if you have too much left and want a less-full flower. Then we stitched a few stitches through the layers on the bottom until it was secure. That's it! Sorry for the lack of photos--this was made and sent off to my sister a while ago. These are great as pins--just sew or glue a brooch pin to the back. This one was to pin on a nursing cover, but they'd also be cute on a bag.

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44 Responses to “make a fabric flower and a flower tutorial round up”

Anyone else having issues finding the Ribbon Rose Bouquet on BurdaStyle? The instructions seem to have gone missing...shame, because I LOVE that idea, and have a few empty vases I can picture with lovely ribbon bouquets filling them...

I have loved all these flower ideas this week and today was no exception to that. So many great ideas to choose from. I can't wait to make some flower pins to trim dresses for my granddaughters! My daughters just bought a pretty flower pin for me. It's made from silk petals, embroidery floss and a button. If you'd like to ~ you can take a peek at it here: http://spunbyme.blogspot.com/2009/08/ta-da-goodies.html

Thanks for all the tutorials I actually have my own home decor business and I made a paper flower for them and it's a hit! Thanks, it's just what I needed!! here is my sitehttp:www.theburntdaisy.blogspot.com

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I love these things! I make mine a little more simply but I found a girl on Etsy who sells the supplies cheap so I didn't have to go hunt down fabric and then spend all that time cutting it into circles its www.etsy.com/shop/sweetsweetcircles

This was the post that got me interested in Little Birdie secrets and eventually fabric jewelry i nthe first place.....great to visit this page after almost a year...great work guys..and thanks a million

hey I had a couple of such flowers on my shirt but I folded it and put it in my closet next thing I know they were flattened =( they were made of chhiffon any ideas on how to make them go back to normal??

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